Aussie Federal Court Orders ISPs to Block Pirate IPTV Service
After successful applying for ISP blocks against dozens of traditional torrent and streaming portals, Village Roadshow and a coalition of movie studios switched tack last year. With the threat of pirate subscription IPTV services looming large, Roadshow, Disney, Universal, Warner Bros, Twentieth Century Fox, and Paramount targeted HDSubs+ (also known as PressPlayPlus), a fairly well-known service that provides hundreds of otherwise...
Nike Sued for Running Pirated Software
Virtually every piece of software is cracked and made available on the Internet, through a myriad of pirate sources. These are generally visited by regular people out to save a few bucks, but according to Quest Software, pirated license keys found their way to Nike’s office as well. The company, known for developing a variety of database software, filed a lawsuit in an Oregon federal court this week, accusing Nike of copyright...
How to use FIND in Linux
In a recent Opensource.com article, Lewis Cowles introduced the find command. find is one of the more powerful and flexible command-line programs in the daily toolbox, so it’s worth spending a little more time on it. At a minimum, find takes a path to find things. For example: read...
How I designed a game with Scratch
As a fan of game jams and an open source aficionado, I was immediately drawn to last October’s Open Jam on itch.io. I decided to create a game using the Scratch programming language. Targeted at kids who want to learn programming, Scratch is designed to be easy and visual. read...
